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While I'm sure that you'd prefer to use one of the 6Gb SATA ports, what happens when you connect the drive to one of the Intel ports?

I admit that I have yet to install Win7 to a boot drive that requires additional drivers. The closest I've come was putting Vista on an Intel RAID 10 setup, a couple of years ago. I recall not particular difficulties with that, other than having the right drivers on a USB stick when needed during the install.

While I'm sure that you'd prefer to use one of the 6Gb SATA ports, what happens when you connect the drive to one of the Intel ports?

I admit that I have yet to install Win7 to a boot drive that requires additional drivers. The closest I've come was putting Vista on an Intel RAID 10 setup, a couple of years ago. I recall not particular difficulties with that, other than having the right drivers on a USB stick when needed during the install.

Thanks bobkn and HNY to you!

When I install W7 using any of the 6 normal SATA II ports, it worked fine. It is the 2 SATA III ports that is giving me problems. Although BIOS (version 0901) detects and show me 2 SATA III drives but for some strange reason W7 cannnot detect them even though I have install drivers for Marvell during installation process.

In the end I gave up. I eventually installed W7 on my 1st SATA III drive (but on SATA II port) with BIOS set to AHCI mode. This worked well.

However, for my 2nd SATA III drive (on SATA III port), my W7 cannot detect it on Windows environment. In BIOS environment, I can see my 2nd SATA III drive being detected as an IDE drive (even though BIOS is set to AHCI mode). I have tried using both Marvell drivers 1036 and 1045 but these do not seem to work well. I still cannot detect my 2nd SATA III drive in W7.

Windows 7 installation cannot read SATA III Drive

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